New Orleans Geek Dinner
I’ve signed us up for a geek dinner over at Hugh’s blog.
This is a dinner where the wine is provided by Stormhoek, a South African vinyard.
Hugh introduces the idea in his blog bost 100 Geek Dinners, where he quotes Jason the Stormhoek blog:
bq.. We’ll supply the wine, the bloggers supply the people and the conversation. The events don’t have to be big, or at a fancy place, we imagine that they could be anywhere- a bar, a porch, a beach, park, whatever, so don’t limit yourself to a restaurant.
Sure, we want this to be about bloggers, although anyone who wants to invite a supermodel, rock star or pro athlete along is welcome to do so. We just want the events to be interesting. The local organizer will set the rules for the event, so please use your imagination. As usual, there is no need to blog or post pics about Stormhoek, but we do ask that you email us some pics of the event, because we’d like to have mementos of the dinners, maybe to post later.
p. I’ve added us as number 56 in the list at Hugh’s Wiki entry on the dinner. Trackback or comment if you’d like to attend. I’d love a suggestion for a place that allows you to bring your own bottle. I’m thinking Lola’s, but they may be too small.
We also need a date and a topic. Who’s available when? What shall we discuss? Rebuilding or lighter things?
*Update*: The New Orleans Geek Dinner will be held at “910 Esplanade Ave”:http://maps.google.com/maps?q=910+Esplanade+Ave%2C+New+Orleans%2C+LA, on Friday, July 14th, 2006. Wine will be provided by Stormhoek, and we’ll call this the Stormhoek sponsored New Orleans Geek Dinner, for that kindness.
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100Dinners responded today. They are cc’ing Stormhoek so we can get things set up.
Will the particulars be posted here? I’m afraid I’m somewhat behind on blogger issues lately.
We’ll post in the comments here, so go ahead and bookmark this post. I’ll announce something in the main body, but let’s continue our discussion here.
Thank you Morwen for following up on the Geek Dinner and contacting Stormhoek. It means so much to me to be able to get help from other people in New Orleans.
Thank you so much.
Ah, yes. Well Same from Stormhoek posted to Gentilly Girls web site. Morwen has done a great job of organizing this. A date in mid-July would be great. Let’s choose a weekday, so we don’t get in the way of the 4th, or some other holiday? Or can we find a good Saturday?
I”d like to make this another fun and functional event, like the ["Crawfish Boil":http://blogometer.com/2006/05/26/indy-media-crawfish-boil/], that is I”d like to bring folks together who’ve been doing computer work to help fix New Orleans.
Sam from Stormhoek has suggested we keep it small, and one good way to do that is to simply RSVP here. Don’t announce it on your blogs, or put it in the mailing lists, or else we’ll have dozens when we should have about a dozen.
I’m about to fire off an email message to you all. I’d love to see Morwen, Bart, Maitri, George, Christian, Mikkel, etc. These are people who’ve have done community Internet and radio work with me for some time.
How about a tenative date of Saturday, July 15th, 2006? Or would Thursday, July 13th be better? Weekday or weekend?
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